Portrait of a semi-naked Tripura tribal woman from Tripuri (also Tipra or Tipperah) tribe, Finong Para Village, Bandarban district, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Indian Sub-Continent, Asia..The Tripuri people are considered part of the Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group. Originally they migrated from near the upper courses of the Yangtze kiang and the Hwang Ho rivers in Western China. The Tripuri people mainly speak various dialects called Kokborok. The Tripuri adhere to Vaishnava Hinduism which is heavily influenced by the religious doctrine of the neighbouring Bengali people. .The indigenous Tripuri people comprises various hill tribal communities viz., Tipra, Reang, Jamatia, Kaipeng, Noatia, Koloi, Halam, etc. who migrated to this land in successive waves in the ancient past. The Tripuris live on the slopes of hills in a group of five to fifty families. Their houses in these areas are built of bamboo or ua as it is called in Kokborok and raised five to six feet height to save themselves from the dangers of the wild animals.